Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . deprived of herfathers loving care and left solely forlove and comfort to her mother who,being an invalid, could not pay properattention to her child. Her fatherhad taught her to read the Holy Scrip-tures and by this she grew to haveiaith in God and his son Jesus Christ. Elizabeth was raised in the Episcopa-lian church, and when yet very youngshe saw that the teachings of the Sa-vior were not practiced by that churchas she thought t
Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . deprived of herfathers loving care and left solely forlove and comfort to her mother who,being an invalid, could not pay properattention to her child. Her fatherhad taught her to read the Holy Scrip-tures and by this she grew to haveiaith in God and his son Jesus Christ. Elizabeth was raised in the Episcopa-lian church, and when yet very youngshe saw that the teachings of the Sa-vior were not practiced by that churchas she thought they ought to be. Inher prayers she began to plead withGod to show her how to be good, and7io\V to serve him. At twelve yearsold she had a vision of truth and error,in which the Savior appeared and toldher to follow his teachings, in whichcase all would be well with her. Thisvision was repeated three times, thelast time when she was nearly twentyyeaVs old. She had enauired into thecreeds of the different churches nearher home, but could not believe anyof them, and on the vision being re-peated the third time she decided toleave home and .go to London, among so many people, she thought shewould surely find some who served Godaright. In December, 1851, she at-tended a meeting of the AldenhamStreet branch of the Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints; Elder Ja-cob Gates was the preacher on thatoccasion, and in his sermon he por-trayed the vision she had seen, and thelast words of his discourse were al-most the identical words which theSavior had uttered to her in the the close of the meeting she gaveher name in for baptism, and she wasacordingly baptized, Dec. 31, 1851. Al-though young and unacquainted withthe doings of the people of the world,she was assailed on every hand, andpersecutions came from all she held 810 LATTER-DAY SAINT dear; her mother refused to acknowl-edgre her as her child, unless she wouldgive up the new faith she had es-poused; but nothing
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